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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1925.

HONGKONG HOTEL GRILL ROOM SPECIAL ARMISTICE

JUNGLE KING.

...

WHITE MAN'S AMAZING ADVENTURES

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onsequence for they were no

thing more than harmless herbs... After two and half yeafs es rule;

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Just at the zenith of Boyes's THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU. greatness, trqublu came, for

party of white men came into the neighbourhood with a large force

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of armed troops. These proved TX7ITH referonte to the Notice: to be Government. officials who

to the Shareholders of this No more romantic story in the had come to take the bountry over. Company dated 23rd July, 1026; long annals of British ploscership and Boyes told the natives, who whereby the Final Call of $5.00. can be told than that related reported the advance of the per share on the New Shures was strangers, that they had come to made payable on 2nd November, to a special correspondent of take his place as ruler over them. 1926, instead of 1st August, 1926, Reynolds" Illustrated News" at Ultimately Boyes was arrested the General Managers and Con- Hull by Mr. John Boyes, a native and charged with having waged sulting Committee have decided, of that great Yorkshire scapori wir, set shauries, personite the in view of the conditions prevail

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joying a two years' holiday the wilds of the African Mnent.

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and

exhibitions,."

Committed the time for payment of this Calk Ho from dacuity." was tried at Notice is accordingly hereby eon-Nairobi, and after waiting in given that the date for payment jail for some weeks was acquitted of the Final Call is postponed to with flying colours. The adminis-1st February, 1926, and that the Mr. Boyes is the son of a ultration of the country was then Form of Bankers' Receipt already feet und shoc maker, and when heken over by the British Govern-out to Shareholders can be used was only fourteen years of agement. During this stirring periods though the date named therein

were the 1st February, 1926... The ran away te now filled with a fof his career John Boyes had a onging for an adventurous life. unique experiente in elephant hunting. The restrictions which Phat his longing was more than now exist as to the number of omply gratified is shown by his elephants shot did not then apply. He also shot fons, and had many fascinating career. For three or

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FOR THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO.,'

LTD.,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

er year before this, Johnarrow escapes from death: 0 Hongkong, 29th October, 1026

The 'THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

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COMPANY (1918), LIMITED.

X71TH reference to the Notice

Fune orcasidies he was stalking of toyes, then a barefout boy, whohru, where suddenly he found Free to Lake the repaired boots himself two yards away from a Front his father's shop to the cus-on poised ready to spring.

mers. had had a yearning for animal was furious, as it was also. he sen, and he lost no opportunity on the track of the zebra. of cultivating the friendship of much surprised was the hunter iz

altors at the Hall docks. Always that he could not find a cartridge, W to the Shareholders of this e kept his eye and ears open for and though he summoned up Company dated 18th September, chance to make a trip to the far enough, nerve to fumble in his 1925, whereby the Final Call of tant parts of the globe of which porket for one, the lion, appar-$3.00 per share on the New ailor in their remantle yarnsatly perceiving that something Shares was made payable on 3rd told his so much. Eventually be fatal bad rope its way, quietly November, 1995, instead of st

1925. walker alt the way from Hull to dared away before he had dis-October,

General the blaverpool eating turnipe and ear-E wered the cartridge: At Bull Manager and Consulting Con

tute on the way, and asking for a

when "Reynolds's" correspondent mittre have decided, in view of fink of milk at Farmhouses.terviewer him. Mr. Boyes hat the conditions prevailing at pre- Fen then his tunda were so low on at denwing room floor the sent, to further extend the time bod he hack to pawn space clothes head of a magnificent on with for payment of this Call to provide him with sufficient wetve feet of kin attached to it Notices ccordingly hereby Cat and his night's lodging. which he had shot in the jungle.given that, the date for payment Fixed idea was to get abroad and Behar shot hundreds offor the Final Call is postponed to og something of the world. On elephants, some of which had 4th January, 1926, and that the Earhing Liverpool he managed to tusks of ivory, weighing 150lbs. Form of Bankers' Receipt already pet a berth aboard a ship named apiece, Mr. Boyes, who has sent to Shareholders can be used he "Knight of St. John," and this thought his wife and two children as though the date named therein took him to Rotterdam, where, by with him, came to England on the were the 4th January, 1926.

When he Portuitous circumstances.. he Kenilworth Castle." missed the return voyage te att Kenya, he said, the native Liverpool and found himself chiefs had chauffeurs to drive aded in the Dutch port with-ihein cars, but when he first went at visible means of subsistence. out there only about ler white Each a barque, thema inhabited, the Colony. He shipped on

Bake Simcoe." which was tradAfrican bative had many wives, lang in South Amerien, and later. The relatest; in fact the African his return to England, tried to women prefer their men to have a

Pe you have sold your pig.] Pat?

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"How much did you get?" "Ten pounds:

"How much did it cost you?". "Ten pounds."

"What did it cost to keep him W

Ten pounds."

For THE CHINA LIGHT &

POWER CO. (1918), LTD.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..

General Managers. Hongkong, 28th October, 1925.

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The First Boll; will-be, rung, 10/2,15. The thärgs for admission to the Publia Enclosure will be $1.

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Members are advised that they must how their Sesson Tickets to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure,

in the Royal Navy. Pailing in number, as they are slaves and HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, 145s For Fack of his parents con- Fit divides the work up and thus nt, young Boyer worked his given thers-ier time. A pwagt out to Durban, in Natal bative chiol never dreams of tak

here he arrived just ter the ing his wife ont in his car. Jameson Raid From this point Jowar bis career was full of ex

itement and adventure. "He ronde his way up 'Africa, id temporary employment of one kind and anothef kept him from Starvation until he had a term of stvice in the Matabele War. For Es. 8d. John Boyes secured a dhow passage to Mombasa in owned by an Arab, and from there he organised a transport caravan on the Uganda Railway route until he found himself in a llon- infested-country, which had up to pany all the winter " then been inexplored by white people. To make matters worse; i was teeming with ferocious Mark folk, the bulk of whom were wdike canibals. Despite the Ladvier and stringent opposition of Mombasa, he white people at Boyes decirle to penetrate the notorious Wa-Kikuyu country. This part of. Africa is near the fardons Mount Kenya, which is about 18,000ft. above sea level and pha perpetual now on its summit,

"You didn't make much." "No! But had the pig's

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THE CHINA YEAR

BOOK 1925.

He was told by the British mili-EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD

tary authorities that the country

of Kihuru was bortile, that the

rife was the most murderous of Large And More Comprehensive

all in Africa, and that in one case,

a party of Britishers had been

Than Ever.

Ettelted within thirty miles of the The present (1925-6) issue of Government station at Fort Smith the CHINA YEAR BOOK in again and nearly every nan killed.

With typical disregard of conseonsiderably larger than any of quences, Boyes went through a ta predecessors. The Chapters circuitous route of the wild and in "Mines and Minerals," "Educa forbidden land, and, by unexam-

tion," "Products," "Labour" pled bluff and herve, made! straight for the residence of the Opium. Commerce," "Ship chief of the tribe, an old native sing," "Currency," etc, have been named Karuri.With the aid of owritted and brought up to date, the magic powers of jodoform a

The Report

of the Shanghai Child alarm clock, a bottle of fruit salts (which riade the natives think he Labour Commission is reprinted could drink boiling water), then full in the Chapter in "Labour." Lribe soon began to regard him as "The Political Summary" describer a witch doctor, and fell down and wents up to the end of March, worshipped him as a god. Within 1925. The Chapter on "Defence. a short time by virtue of organic appears at the end of the Book ing the natives against other New Chaptere include a Summary hostile tribes, and the use of the of Medical Events "Political rifle and revolver, Boyes became Partics," "Taxation a "Biblio the white king of this extraprdin-graphy for 1924, and a docu ary tribe of savages which num-mented Chapter on "China's Con- bered half a million. His boots stitutions and Election Laws. wore a source of great attraction THE TERMS OF THE GOLD to the savages, who had never seen FRANC SETTLEMENT CARE a white man or boots and clothes INCLUDED IN AN APPENDER before. They thought his boots graines pingang, at were part of his feet. The Kikuyu tribe were a light-hearted Trace, who spent their time danc Eng and singing weird music, There was some trouble with the medicine men, who resent entry into their midst of a white man, but he soon

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